Department of Education: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Department of Education has published 40 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 6 CPV divisions, most often business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.

Across 16 awarded contracts the median value is £212k.

Its published awards total £242.3m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Department of Education's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 33 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 13 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.6 tenders a month, measured over 64 months of history.
Half of their 16 awarded contracts are worth £212k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, education and training services.
Their most frequent suppliers are INEQE GROUP LIMITED (2), HODDER STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL LIMITED (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
ID 4549411 - DE - An Outcome based Evaluation of Limavady Sh...	National Children's Bureau	17 July 2023	£327.9k
ID 4458407 DE - Standardisation of Pre-School Education Prog...	RSM UK Consulting LLP	28 February 2023	£195.6k
DE - Delivery of a Mobile Application to Provide Advice and ...	INEQE GROUP LIMITED	8 July 2022	£446.7k
ID 3703924 -DE - Review of Special Educational Needs (SEN) s...	Ipsos MORI	29 March 2022	£179.8k
DAC 33/22 – DE – GCSE Revision eBooks.	HODDER STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL LIMITED	7 March 2022	£212k
DAC 158/21 - DE - CCEA - Specialist support for the developm...	The Psychometric Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education	24 February 2022	£106.5k

Supplier	Contracts	Total Value
INEQE GROUP LIMITED	2	£621.7k
HODDER STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL LIMITED	2	£424k